Arms Warrior PvP Useful Macros — Midnight Season 1
Macros are crucial to be successful in PvP. They allow players to use abilities on enemies without having to target them. This helps increase overall damage/healing and general awareness in the arena. Here are a few macros that all Arms Warriors can benefit from.
This page is part of our Arms Warrior PvP Guide.
Focus Target Macro
Storm Bolt Focus Macro
Using this macro will use
Storm Bolt on the target currently set as your focus.
This makes it easier to CC an non-kill target should it be necessary. Functional with any
other abilities such as
Disarm.
Arena123 and Party123 Target
Pummel Arena123 Macro
This incredibly useful macro will let you target a specific arena target without having to switch off of your current target. Arena 1, Arena 2, and Arena 3 are in the order from top to bottom of the enemy arena frames. We recommend mastering this form of targeting.
Due to its complexity, it can be a better idea to pick this up later when
you have mastered the fundamentals. You can do the same for your party by
replacing arena123 with party123. This is useful for abilities such as
Intervene.
Be mindful, however, that party1 is your party leader, and then scales down with the frames from top to bottom, excluding yourself.
You can also use /target arenapet123 to make a separate macro that lets you quickly swap to an enemy pet.
Cancelaura Macro
/cancelaura macro
Allows you to cancel buffs on you like
Bladestorm to regain
control of your character. It is worth to keep a separate bind purely to
cancelaura buffs like
Blessing of Protection or
Blessing of Freedom.
This way, you can gain the benefit of the buff initially, but then cancel it
to prevent from being stolen with
Spellsteal.
Cursor Macros
Cursor Macro
Immediately casts
Heroic Leap at your cursor. Works great for
abilities like
Spear of Bastion as well.
Charge + Intervene + Hamstring
Combination Macro
This macro combines
Charge,
Intervene, and
Hamstring into the same button. This is possible, because
Charge and
Intervene are off the global cooldown.
Intervene uses the @mouseover function here, so you can mouseover
either a friendly target or their party frame to override
Charge and instead cast
Intervene on them.
Mouseover Macro
Mouseover Targeting
A personal favorite we like to use, which lets you quickly
Heroic Throw any target you mouseover, such as totems.
Taunt Pet
Taunt Arena Pet Macro
Use this in conjunction with another macro for one of your main abilities,
such as
Mortal Strike. This way you can ensure a pet will stick to you
throughout a match.
Changelog
- 16 Mar. 2026: Reviewed for Midnight Season 1.
- 26 Feb. 2026: Updated for Midnight 12.0.1.
- 19 Jan. 2026: Reviewed for Midnight Pre-Patch.
- 30 Nov. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.2.7.
- 05 Oct. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.2.5.
- 04 Aug. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.2.
- 15 Jun. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.1.7.
- 21 Apr. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.1.5.
- 24 Feb. 2025: Updated for Patch 11.1.
- 15 Dec. 2024: Reviews for Patch 11.0.7.
- 21 Oct. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 11.0.5.
- 09 Sep. 2024: Reviewed for The War Within Season 1.
- 21 Aug. 2024: Updated for The War Within
- 23 Jul. 2024: Updated for The War Within Pre-Patch.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Updated for Season 4
- 19 Mar. 2024: Updated for Patch 10.2.6
- 15 Jan. 2024: Updated for Patch 10.2.5
- 06 Nov. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.2
- 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7
- 10 Jul. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.5
- 09 May 2023: Updated for Dragonflight Patch 10.1.
- 21 Mar. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.7.
- 30 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Reviewed for Dragonflight Season 1.
- 22 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
- 31 May 2022: Reviewed for Patch 9.2.5.
- 28 Feb. 2022: Page reviewed and approved for Patch 9.2.
- 08 Nov. 2021: Page reviewed for Patch 9.1.5.
- 02 Jul. 2021: Reviewed and approved for Patch 9.1.
- 18 May 2021: Added many new macros.
- 27 Dec. 2020: Rewritten by Karanze for Shadowlands season 1
- 14 Oct. 2020: Updated for Shadowlands pre-patch.
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This guide has been written by Karanze, an experienced Gladiator Warrior player who has been a Stormforged/trusted member in the popular Warrior class discord Skyhold.
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